Volunteer Stories

Donna earns her living as a nurse but her real passion is to help conserve our natural environment and engage more people to understand and value their natural environment. Donna is a keen amateur naturalist and in recent years has developed her skills as moth recorder, participating in the garden moth recording scheme, she also carries out butterfly and bumblebee transects in some of our local nature reserves. And if that isn’t enough, she is an avid litter picker helping to keep our countryside litter free. … [Read more...] about Donna Rainey – Project photography, site guardian, site survey, events, website blogger and Facebooker

Alan is a retired primary school teacher with a background in Environmental Studies. He has had a keen interest in the natural environment and the great outdoors since early childhood. Alan is a keen amateur photographer, which was fuelled by the advent of digital photography and over the last 12 years he has built up a substantial archive of images. His most recent focus has been on the flora and fauna in a variety of habitats within the Causeway Coast and Glens, council area.
While he was still teaching Alan was seconded to the Western Education and Library Board for 2 years, (1994 to … [Read more...] about Alan Sturgeon – Project photographer & site guardian